My Final interview with Greg was about advertising and public relations. He first described that he would often notice billboards for vacation/sightseeing locations, such as Meramac caverns and gas stations. One of the advertisements that he remembers the most was Stuckies;
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A Billboard advertising Meramec Caverns, a hot spot back in the day/
Greg told me about all of the advertisements that he would see painted on the side of buildings downtown. He would see many ads for Vess Beverages and Billion Bubble beverages. There was even a giant Vess soda bottle downtown. While he was there, Greg also had a blast looking in store windows looking at all of the clothes and toys that were in there. Everybody loved looking through those windows.
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The giant Vess Bottle near downtown St. Louis!
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One of the stores in downtown St. Louis 'The Pearch'. Unfortuneatly it is closed now.
Greg was too young to remember seeing any Burma shave signs, but he did play a lot of license plate games and one that he called "my cow"
When it comes to how advertising has changed over the years, Greg has an interesting viewpoint. Overtime, Advertising has become more silly. One of the commercials he specifically remembers from this past Superbowl was the AT&T "Ok Surgeon" commercial. He remembers just how goofy the whole commercial was and how it really got his attention in a whole different way. Back in the day, Ads were all about just describing the product, now they have a story.
There was always this advertisement for a place called Stuckies. It was a restaurant that served in these wooden bowls that you could take home. It was such a neat idea.
A Billboard advertising Meramec Caverns, a hot spot back in the day/
Greg told me about all of the advertisements that he would see painted on the side of buildings downtown. He would see many ads for Vess Beverages and Billion Bubble beverages. There was even a giant Vess soda bottle downtown. While he was there, Greg also had a blast looking in store windows looking at all of the clothes and toys that were in there. Everybody loved looking through those windows.
The giant Vess Bottle near downtown St. Louis!
Mom would take us downtown to see all of the big toys. Sometimes we didn't have enough money to buy them, but they were still very cool to look at.
One of the stores in downtown St. Louis 'The Pearch'. Unfortuneatly it is closed now.
Greg was too young to remember seeing any Burma shave signs, but he did play a lot of license plate games and one that he called "my cow"
Whenever we would pass a pasture with cows in it one of us would shout 'my cow!' Then that person had however many cows were in the pasture. If we would pass a cemetery someone could shout 'your cows are dead [name]!' Then that person would go down to zero cows. Whoever had the most cows at the end of the trip won.Greg didn't have too much experience with propaganda posters. He did see a few protesting the Vietnam war, as well as seeing the Kennedy assassination on the news. He had a few posters in his room, most notably a "Let's Boogie" poster, a picture of a "good looking blonde" (his words) advertising an oil company, and an Astronauts/Moon poster celebrating the Moon Landing.
When it comes to how advertising has changed over the years, Greg has an interesting viewpoint. Overtime, Advertising has become more silly. One of the commercials he specifically remembers from this past Superbowl was the AT&T "Ok Surgeon" commercial. He remembers just how goofy the whole commercial was and how it really got his attention in a whole different way. Back in the day, Ads were all about just describing the product, now they have a story.
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